OREANDA-NEWS. November 15, 2012. Power Machines OJSC has completed tests of a DC electric machine designed for Volga Pipe Plant OJSC.

A contract to manufacture and supply the DC machine complete with a backup armature for the main drive of reeling mill No. 2 was concluded with Volga Pipe Plant in August 2011.

The new machine is designed to replace the equipment produced by Kharkov Electrical Machinery Plant. The equipment to be supplied has increased capacity and reliability in comparison with the previously used equipment.

Earlier Power Machines supplied two large DC electric machines for the piercing mill drive of Volga Pipe Plant. Those machines replaced electric motors produced by Ansaldo Energia (Italy).